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the MINERS’ AN1> FARMERS’ JOURNM^- iiuuon would csercise it. H ooogn-ss now refuse to exercise it, congress does, as she may insist brr«k ibe condition ol tlic grant, and thus manifestly violate the constUuUon; ami far this violation of the cooatilutioo, she may threaten to secede also. > irgu.ia may secede, and hold the fortresses in the C lies- apeakel The western states may secede, take to their own use the public lauds Louisana mav secede, if she choose, from a foreign alliance, and hold the mouth of the Miasiwippi- If state may secede, ten may do so—twenty n»y do so—twenty- three u»ay do so. Sir, as these secessions j go on, one after another, what is to consti- lute the United Sutes? Whose will l«e the army? Whose the navy 1 Who will pay the debU? Who fulfil the public treaties? Who perforin the eonstitutionnl guarantees? Who govern this district and tlie territories? Who retain the public property ? Mr. President, every man must see that theae are all questionr which can arise only after a revolution. They presuppose the breaking up of the government. W hile the coostitution lasts, they are repressed; they spring up to annoy and startle us onlj front Its grare. The constitution does not provide for events which must be preceded by its own destruction. Secession, therefore, since it must bring these consequences with it, i» revolutionary. And nullification is equally reToiutionarv. What is revolution ? Why, sir, that is revolution, which ovenur^ or control*, or succe«fully resists the existing |Hjblic authority; that which arrests the ex ercise of the supreme power; thut which introduces a new paramount authority into the rule of the state. Now, sir, this is the precise object of nullification. It attempts to supersede the supreme legislative au thority. It arests the arm of the execu tive magistrate. It interrupts the exercise of the accustomed judicial power. I nder the name of an ordinance, it declares null and void, within the state, all the revenue law^ of the United Slates. Is not this re volutionary ? Sir, so soon as this ordi nance shail be carried into effect, a revolu tion will have commenced in South Caroli na. She will have thrown off the autho rity to which her citizens have heretolore other Slates. He must see, theref.w, uiui , r.lales docs sec, every man st’es, thut tlic tcrnative is a rei>cul of the laws, r' the whole t nion, or their execution lina as well as elsewhere. And th is demanded U’cause a single Sl.ntc iuieriHj. ic HUthoiily is to be cm uted, •» | A SERIOUS DISASTER. it is ndn.iltrd to l.e stiicily c.m-.tiU.- ihe pub We are aorry to have to announcei iS/o/f. tlie conslitutionalily stablishiiig this government, an ul.joct , iim oiisliinlum.il, and l.al ii dec. . s l..i it- ■ |uw of the land, any thing in wnJch wn king the |)«vpnent in froni, forced on ihe country hv the conditio., ot s. lf on ll.e n.o.le ami .m■n^ure ol ,edr.->.s ' to the contrary not- the Biam-l, Hank (near ho spot) p«rce,^ Ihel.iiies, and the al^olute necessity of the tl.e «.-u...ent nri.ves ut ...ice nl the con- uf toi., n-HnnR of ihe fire, (the building of ft, law, was to give to Congress p.uer to lay elusion .hat wl.al a ^tale dissents l.om .1 ‘ ,,;,rud„„ncli‘n from u conlede- S.ule lk-,«irlmenl interposing ) Erer> ,,. and collect i,n,K>.ts ihe conunt of nu.y nnl dy; «l.at U oj>,k« s, it n.ax op- « ,..„,rncted, ertion was inade, as the pe«|de^lhe«d t^rtindarSlaU The revolutioniny del.t |«.se hy l.rce ; uhr.t it do, id. s lor i « 1 , i ' .nnn.ls ...ten d ...to by the spot, l.iKling that it would be ,o v„„„ coiiaequence papers i.iider this fonsttlution tins i>.i|iirnie law. rutid.tinenlHl law. Congress could not lay imposts taxes, by its own authority ; f‘ (leneral CJoverninent, therefore more than a name. The federation, as to purposes finance, were nearly as a dead country sought to escn|.e from tl tion, at once feeble and disgraceful, by con this qiiestion lor il«*:ll’; and, in o|ifM>sitii)h I St.luting n government which should lia\e icasoii and argunwi.t, in o|>iK.sili. n to prac- l>,. i'.i> Minn ine ,H>wer, of iTself, to lav duties and taxes, tire and ex,Krience. in opiHus.i.on to li.e st.tut.on, an.l that it .hall U I... M.pninc and to pay llie public debt, and provide for jjudmnenl «f others, luving nn i i;ual ri-ht Ihe general welfare; and to lay these du-, to judge, it snys,4>nly, “^.noli is my «>pio- ties and taxes in all Ihe Slates, without ion, and my opinion shall U- iny law, ai .1 1 asking the cons«>nt of the Slate (lovern- "ill support it hy my own sinmg hanJ. 1 menl” Tliis was the very power on which denonnce the law ; I declare it uiKon.'*lilu- tlie new constitution was to de[>end for all .tional; that is enough; it shall n»>t be ex its abilitv to do good ; and without it, it can ccuted. Men in arms are read> to resi>l be no Government, iK)w or at any time.— ! its execution. An nllen.pt to enforre it Yet, sir, it is pncisely agqiiisl this power, sl.nll cover the lanil with blMxI. I’l.-a-- so absolutely indispensable to the very lie- where, it may be binding; but here it i> ing of Ihe Ciovernment, that S. Carolina trampled umler IIk.I.” directs her ordinance. She attacks the ' This, sir, is practical nnllifi. ntion. Government in its authority to raise rev-j And now, sir, acnin*! all these theories enue, the verj- main spring of the wliole and opini(*ns, I ma.niain l«pera 00 the grou«| have lieen nved course) Biid all thrjte were deslroved. Of ib |Mt|>ers in tlie a|iortinenti of tin second story, much Ihe greater part itn saved. 'I'he offices f>n llie first floor, the b(»Jj| of which are ravi>d, were those of law. 'I'hrv sny llu v urilom oiul rgtabli»h It. Now. iir,'what i« Ihe eonim«>n npph- , , .r ■ cation of ii.. ..e words? Wr do not si^^ak of Ilegisler of ihe 1 reasur), llw Ti«»imJ ,.rr/,iin.«4Hr.,»iies and . omiaicls. If this uihI the » f was intended to Le a conq>atl or league, (Wr, nearly all ihe ^>ka of the Finj and the States to Ik; i^riies to .1, uhv IS It Com|>troller, wh-w olfice occup.H - I not so sai.l ? hy is tliere fouinJ I'lo ex- greater numlM'r of ihe rooms, were nm pn.'v.iou in the whole inslmnKMil ind.cnling •'«! • part of llwiee bel^ging to lb« • uch inM.l? The old conl.-derati .n was of tlie Sexrrlary of the I rea«r>, in •h • , xpn *si> ralU d a Uae«e: and into this nnmethalc n|*rtments the fire mu leiiruc It was declared that tlie Slates, a« duroverrd. .lut. s, sevtrallv entered. Wh\ was W)l »f the olTier* connected with the T- Mi.i.Ur h.nj-uage used in llx« cfmslituli.K., wry IK-parliiM^I, several of the iikk *r1 .fBsiinil.ir int. ntion ba.I eM^ted ’ Whv tr„«»»e, arc kept in other buiWinp IM was It ri..t s;.id, “Ihe Slates into I his new that deslroved, and are of course «!«■; league,'’ “the Stales form this new c^- safe, vi*. lln-» of the Sec.«d C.«»pUi« | system; and, if she succeed, evvry move-i i. That the consiilnlion ol' the rnile»l be^n subject, siie'wilf have declared her I ment of that s\ slei.^ must inevitably ceaw. Stales is not a league, conlederaey, or com- ; s,„,es inn-o lo ihi« S-c.^nd. 'I hird. Fourth and Fifth AuAu. own opinions and her own will to be above It is of no avail that she declares that she ,«ct, U tween the i^-ople ol the ^^ve^..l ™ and Ihe S.,licilor of the TiemMir). does not resist Ihe law as a revenue law. Stales in Ihcirstrtereign ca|uit.lies; Uit a 'T''*"' v »r, v. n> y* ii nw sa o, ^ but as a law for protecling manufactures. (lovernrnent pro|* r fou.Kl«-d on ihe ado,H «hem f4*oleie, and aiiiv«t all of . , It is a revenue law; it is the very law b> n,K,„f the people, nnd cnaling direct re- p'Opio M me ^verai . laics Th. nw-* ««rsl force of which the revenue is collected; if lotions Ulween iisclfaiwl iihIiv uliials. accedrd to the coin[wict in ihr.r ».\enign • ' ' ,i^ it be arrested in any Slate, the revenue That no State anth-.nlv ha, ,,..wrr to U h.il reason i. .here for sup- the supreme’power, as the American'revo-i ceases in that S:ate; il is, in a word, the .ijssolvc these rHat.oiw; lli..t i.oihmg can l‘“-^"'KIh-framers o| llie const,luiioii • ^ O . I* | lutionof 1776. That revolution did not reiinnce of the (lovermnenl fi)r the di>.oIve them Uu revol„i,..n; aisl Ihm. eon- t vprrssi.-us appp.pr.-itc to he r . _ ‘ subvert Government m all its forms. 1, | tneans of niainta.ning itself and perforu.ing scq.ienlly, there can no such ih.ng as ' " »• « the Fire was first di..ov.«c did not subvert local laws and municipal i 'ts duties. , sccctfMoii without revohilK.n. ^ , f ,i_^i ilte nurl.l I administrations. It only threw off the do-I Mr. President, the alleged righ of a Slate 3. That there is a .,-preme hw, ecnisis. Ai;am, s.r, I»h« cons .lul ion mimon of a power, claitmng to be superior, to decide constitutional questirns for her- ting .,f the eo^^litulion of il.e I n.ted i^lai.-., I***‘''irh il e,t»bl.>hrs wh.de pr.pohilion was so de.p burn^ and to have a right, in many important res- *^h, necesssarily leads to force, Ijccaiise olh- arN i>f Congre>-'«i pa«»ed m pursuniK'i* of ii, ^ peels, to exercise legislative authority. States must have the same ri^ht, and nnd ireutie.s, anl that, in eases nr>t capsiltli* '“*t the laws, and above tlie power of those who are entrusted w.th their administration. If she makes good these declarations, she is revolutionized. j , As to her, it is as distinctly a change of;'t he arrested n. anv Slate, the revem.e Thinking this nuthority to have been usur ped or alMised, the American colonies, now the U. States, bade it defiance, and freed thenofli lves from it by means of a revolution. Conrnmnt t>f thi I nilrd St,tftM." •'1‘^p. that a comparmlively wwill nuu^- doing »>ir.in;'evi..Jrnce to hinguage arrived early on the ground. Very iHJcaused.lfererit Stales will dinride dilk-reni- ■„f ass’„mi’n-’ii e . harlcte^7.f a Mi'it^^^ a compact l^l«een »..ve. nft*T tlw- fir^t cry Fire ulicnd ly; and, when these questions arise brtween or equilv.Cmgrrssn.ust judge of, and final- I*""' '» ® >orfrnnui%t > I Iw tiovern- ■ States, if there be no superior |>o\ver. they U interpret, this wipren.-I.,w, so i.flen as it orpini7,ili«Ki in , h*lf |iakt two o’clock, the kMper of. Orphan Asylum Iwll caught anl repw- It la Ihe al.irm; »h«-iice it happened thil can be decided«iiy hy the la* of f.rcc. |insoc^aslo^lot«.^^actsof|ecisl«l.o..;nm^ i; Bui that revolution left them with their ; entering into the I nion, the people of m ca^es capable of n'suio'ng, ood ii*luallv thi* ^i-ing, rr»*nleti bv the c(Joslilii. (lerson* a e re, .. J own municipal laws still, and the forms of I each Stale gave up a part of ihe.r own assominc, the chararler of a suit, ihe S.i. fund«m.-nlal Inw. I he broad aiK^ diate ne.ghtor., I local Government. If Carolina now shall j to make laws for themselves, m con. preme Court of the United Slates is the cKir d.mn nre bf'lwrm n t.overmnrnt ainJ eflRttuallv resist the laws of Congress, if she sideration that, as to common ohj»'cls, final interpreter. a Ifamie, orcr rrijnri, .«ihni a ttovfmwni riv a i. o^ve ^^i i g. t the laws of Congress, shall be her own judge, take her remedy into lier own hands, obey the laws of the Union when she pleases, sho will relieve herself from a paramount power as distinct ly as the American colonies did the same thing in 1770. In other words, she will achieve, ais to herself, a revolution. Dut, sir, while practical nullificalion in interpreh I. - - . • ,• i they should have a part in makini; laws for 4. Tlmt an attempt by a Slate lo abro- '* “ |"'hnc; it has a wiU of il own; "hen once «>n fire, would, uinlei^o} other Slates. In other words, lb*'|>cfn>le ' ^tc, annul, or nullify an net of Con^irrsK, “”1 *t po»^ jwwcrs and facuhies lo exe. ruiiwlancea, have licen impuasibie, •> of all the Stales agreed lo create a common or to arrest its operation w.ihm her lunils, " U.rerv comport llammable was its structure, at well m Government, to be conducted hy common on the grouiMl that, m h* r opinion, such to some jtower lo enforre its HiqHjIa- contenis, councils. IVnnsjlvanin, for example, yitl- law is iincon.Htitmional. is a d.rert usurpation U'en tii a cr.n.pael lieiween •ove- No one can look at tho sn^in’tvj ded the right of laying imposts in h« r own oii the just |>owers uf th-(ieneral tJovern- remn comrmimiif^, there aiwavsexists this wiih«Hit o sensatmn ol aslonishnieni it ports, in consid*-ration that the new Gov-’,ncnt, uihI on the ef|u;.l ri'I.N of other "hmiate rvf* renre to a [>ower lo ensure its foliiily nnd utter improvidence with ernment, in which she was to have a share, Slal(4, a plain violalioti of the consliiution ' 'f‘‘ «tton ; aithniish. in mj« !i rase, ih.s pow- looks ami [>»r*rs of such vast coose*-,^ -‘ II • ■ ’ ' I .L- :imst the have been ao long I rustl'd lo any otbct:' The few S. Carolina would be, as to herself, actual | shwld possess the powrr ol laving iin|K>sts and a pr«x-e--dmg essentially revululionary force f.l one |«rly ag:i arxJ distinct revolntion, its necessary ten-|'” all the States. It S'hiI|. ( arolina now In lU character ami terMlcney. forre o4 an-ther—that is tosay,lh dencv must also be to spread revolution, I to submit lo this prjwer, she breaks Whether the constitution l« a compact ^ . \ec ,lhe power • fire-proof building. spread revolution, ito submit lo this prjwer, she breaks Whether the constitution l« a compact Uut a fionrnmnU « \ecules iis *uulle| rooms in the liuildmg enlirrtT and to break up the constitution, as to all j the condition on which other Stafesenlered belwee.i Slales m llieir s«.vereign rapicilies, I'V its own supieine aiithorily. eajied the flame* ; and had the whole the Aher States. It strikes a deadly blow 1 into the Union. She partakes of the com- a question which must be inninly argued in roint»-lling ob*-henrc to mg l»een similarly conMrucleil, ibf ^ at the vital principle of the whole Union. councils, and therein assists lo bind from what is contained in the inslrtinK-nl il. ei.aclinents, is ii.-l war. It con- '•"'•Id iK.t have occurred; or if, ihrA To allow State resistance lo the laws of Congress to be rightful and proper, lo ad mit nullification in some Stales, and yet not expect to see a dwmemberment of the en tire Government, appears to me the wild est delusion, and the most extravagant fiJly. The gentleman seem# not conscious of the direction or the rapidity of his own course. I'he current of his opinions sweeps him a- long, lie knows not whither. To begin with nullification, with the avowed intent, nevertheless, not to proceed to secession, dismemliermcnt, and general revolution, is as if one were to take the plunge of Nia gara, and cry out that he would stop half way down. In the one case, as in the other, Ihe rash advonlurer must go to the bottom of Ihe dark abyss Ijelow, were it not that that abyss has no discovered bottom. Nullification, if successful, arrests the power fjf the law, absolves citi^cens from their duty, suhvertg tlie foundation bfjth of protection and obedience, dispenses with others, while she refuses to l>e bfjnnd her- self. We all agree that it is an inslrunieni templates no opfx.sing party having a right extreme cartrlessness, it had occurn* self. It makes no diirerenec in the case which has Ijcen in some wav clotli' d w ith "f •' *'''tatice. It rests on its own w ill; an«l, would have been confined to the rwa whether she does all this without reason or p,„vpr. Wr nil admit that'it s;K?ak. w nh pretext, or whether she sets up as a reason aiithorily. 'i he first question then is, w hai that, in her judgment, the acts complained ,ix^s it mv of itself? What does it pur of are unconstitutional. In the judgnw^nt p,.,, bc>? I).es it stvle itself a lengm-. when It ceav’s to p»»«-« « this power, it is which it origiiMted. no longer a (iovern'iK'nl. Where was Ihe watchman of the bo. ] T'l U f 'ontinurri ‘ *ng ’ IS a natural question, lie hear, sic k at home ; and the youth • of other .States, they arc not so. It is cfmledemcy, or eomfiact between soverei 'il ^yurnnni^ a Itnl.— \ gfin^l lady in the sultsliluled him was an sound asl^p tha’’ nothing to them that she off'-rssome reason States’ It is to liC rc.mcmbcnil sir Hint ‘’•*y I’ortinnd, who**- huslmml wns lor- was perhaps only wved from Iwing (wrf or some apology for her conduct, if it be one t|,p ronslilution liegan lo siK-nk onlv'after Ilh«' rheinnntism wan udvinetl alive hy ihoso who broke open the ' which they do not admit. It is n«4 to Ijc its adoption. I ntil it was ratified by nine l'»’d, wilh a pan «if cools. an*l ami rouM>d him. Had he he* n ever‘n»‘ ex[)ected that any State will violate her Klates, it w'as IhiI a proposal, the mere throw m a little sugar, .‘'he according awake, howrver, iinleM he had h-ipf*'" duty without some plausible pretext. That dnjiight of an instrument. It’was like a ’^rew ifir snineihmg like a lo ins(M-cl the (tarliculnr room where would be too rash a definnce of the opinion docd, drawn but not executed. 'I ho con- hrown llavann, nnd prfxef'ded f.re l«'gun, the alarm from ouUidc rrn, of mankind. Hut, if it be a pretext which vcnt.on had framed it, s*nt it to Coi,r.rcK8 ^ hri-.kly Is I wren have lieeri hiR first notice, lies in her own breast if it lie no more then sitting under llie CVinfedcration, Con- the *he-ls by wl.it h of>ernlion the stignr W e were glad to «il»scrve that crelit»^ than an opinion which she says she has gre« Imd transmitted it lo the Stale I,ei;is. •••gh reslorr-d to its primitive slate nnil exertions were made by iho proper - , 1 £ gri'Hs iiau iransmilled It to Ihe Riale iei;is. lormeiJ, how can other .States be satisfied Inturef., ur»d by these last it was laid lM?fore '• yesterday lo collect ami secure iliesritif with this How c.nn they allow her to Ik; the convenli«.iis of the ijcopio iii the several ‘'hanldron. Mmiwhile the gfsjd man ed IxKikt niiil (uifM'rs ; so that byoc)» judge of her own obligations ? Or, if she ||,jg^j,ile it wns inoiieralive denuil'sl bim«i|f ami w hen Ihe pen was in the day they were «nf«ly hfused. may judge of her own obligations, n ay they jKijior. It had received no stamp of aulliori- "''hdrawn crawled U lween tlic sheet* as \\aHonal InUlltntncrr. Id in*- not judge of their rights also . M iy not ty, no sarKlion ; it smik#! no language. Hut »» his lameness would pern.it. Hut the twenty.three entcrlam an opinion as n,i,fi,.| |,y the iHM>ple in their re»i>cc- C"'"’ •'** tn his com- (.'enornl I, vFvvi;rrr, in nn oWe S(>^ ■ .... . , „ he tisenty-fourtb ? And, if it be ,ivc conventions, then it had a voice, nnd I’''""* '“^'"'K-r of iho Uavcl family cm I he Kleclion l.aw of rrance. *hifhK oaihs and oh. i gat ions of allegiance, and , thetr right, m their own opinion, as expres- Kvrry word in il had hnve vaulted lo ihe floor with more delivered m ihe Cl.amls r of |)e(H.l.rt« etevatesanotheraulhonly to suprenK^com-il^'d in the common c.Mjneil, to enlo,re the,,j„.n rr .eived the sanelio.i of the iH,pular "P''"y than did the sugar scah old eodgr-r, the I.Mh of January laM, made thi^ rna^Kl. Is not this revolution’ And >t i'-er, how ,s h|,c to say that her will, and wns to In-received as the expres- no S-nalor_ c«ild have n«red louder mnrknhio olsirr vnlion : - I shail si^k ^ the the (ioviTnment of the I oiled J^ts!''*’ nnd though I nm or>e of ihose who i>ny if* — jnsi tnlsiN-of railing it lhe/o«frs ' irntnrnt. Hut vve are now told thnl • ' •nl I should call repulilii nii in-litutii’ii* *■ _ f tumbling only a viist nm/iut nJ, Isiunded on llx' ■ •ise kIiIi. |,y Iho ocfiin, nnd on the ‘’'hrf . . . , ^ ■>. . ■ . *>"d widely exlenihd fon sis. roriiierlv. any orjguei as the builders of twcf.n tl.e iaios? (Vrlainly not. 'ii.ere ; s« alt skin, the old man was II*^'"'fu»^d, is nut a parl.rh- of-uch language in all i(s more fr. e from pain than he had n, I l’l'« '«ry i pages. Hut it declares itself a ronslilution. be fore.-Wc// Com/N n,l. ^li^non T ''rr*'.*" “ ? erlainly not n d lared urironsliliii'irtiaf '* con.|.act or confi-«lerary, but n fun- 'I'l'C mnn whoconl.-nts himsejfio-dny w.lh d. Jarelur,consl.l..,.ona,.n.S,,^ That fundanH-nlal r-.ula- that which he has. will content I.Ls..|f In other tion which dticrmtucs the tnantjer in which to-morrow vvii). that whi. h he m:.v have. lie executed every where, they cannot long be ex«,-euled any where, 'i'he gonlkman very well knows Ikat all dulifs and im|M.sts must be uniform ihr'sighout the country. He knows that we cannot hav«- one rule or one law for .S. Carolina, and another for j and obedience toil i* refused. ever, it was said lint il.'-v su.leil uiiinloml. 'i 1,1 V are mull d In fvrv try where tlie rili/^n*^ are iiilt liij,"'f*’ wihIi to Ik frco.” Kijtlil ll.nii^niiil I*.Ilf hiiodiri (I !.i II -ul llii II Biiiiiinl crrlirii »t ■> All;;-Uaini \||iii*teri* ol' ii iV '
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